Postgres pg_dump dumps database in a different order every time
- by behrk2
Hello,
I am writing a PHP script (which also uses linux bash commands) which will run through test cases by doing the following:
I am using a PostgreSQL database (8.4.2)...
1.) Create a DB
2.) Modify the DB
3.) Store a database dump of the DB (pg_dump)
4.) Do regression testing by doing steps 1.) and 2.), and then take another database dump and compare it (diff) with the original database dump from step number 3.)
However, I am finding that pg_dump will not always dump the database in the same way. It will dump things in a different order every time. Therefore, when I do a diff on the two database dumps, the comparison will result in the two files being different, when they are actually the same, just in a different order.
Is there a different way I can go about doing the pg_dump?
Thanks!
